carbon-intensive

• “Third, massive technological change is the key to the needed transition from reliance on carbon-intensive fossil fuels to more climate-friendly energy sources.”

  The Huffington Post: Robert Stavins: Can the Durban Climate Negotiations Succeed?

• “We do not need to take the unpopular route of making carbon-intensive energy more expensive.”

  The Huffington Post: Martha A. Duggan: The Case for a Federal 'Green Bank'

• “Plenty has been written about how national energy policy is classic corporate welfare for carbon-intensive industries that don't need the help.”

  The Huffington Post: William S. Becker: Can We Win the Future Racing Uphill?

• “Likewise, Greenpeace's report "Who's Holding Us Back?" documents "how carbon-intensive industry is preventing effective climate change legislation.”

  The Huffington Post: Kelly Rigg: What's Next Now That the Durban Climate Negotiations Are Behind Us?

• “The Chinese have been willing to commit to ambitious-sounding national targets to make their energy use less carbon-intensive.3 But, as became clear at the disastrous UN conference on climate change in Copenhagen in December 2009, they are unwilling to accept binding international commitments to reduce emissions.”

  Simon & Schuster: Zero-Sum Future

• “We eat less meat, the production of which is carbon-intensive, and lower our rental home's thermostat to 65 degrees in winter.”

  Earth Day: 10 lessons for building a green house

• “The losers will be the carbon-intensive fuels and energy resources whose risks in this new world outweigh their benefits.”

  The Huffington Post: William S. Becker: "All of the Above" Is No Energy Policy

• “I humbly suggest the following: if it weren't for the carbon-intensive efforts of previous generations, children would now have nothing to complain about!”

  The Huffington Post: Neil Wagner: Climate Change Makes the Bad Old Days Look Better

• “We have just five years to make a wholesale shift in capital energy investments from the production and use of carbon-intensive fuels to new, low-carbon energy.”

  The Huffington Post: David Burwell: Our Global Choice: Asserting U.S. Leadership on Climate and Energy

• “Earlier this month, Greenpeace International held a demonstration in Montreal in which participants covered themselves in "oil" (actually molasses) to protest Canada's energy -, water - and carbon-intensive production of oil from tar sands.”

  The Huffington Post: William S. Becker: Climate Action: Part 3 - Taking it to the Streets

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